Top 10 and Rising, UVA Darden’s Commitment to Entrepreneurship Gains Momentum
By Caroline Mackey
The University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business has vaulted nine spots in Poets & Quants’ 2025 World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship, securing its place at No. 10.
It isn’t the only recognition for entrepreneurship at Darden. The School also ranks No. 8 on a recent list of top MBA programs for entrepreneurship compiled by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
Darden’s strong showing this year is attributed to robust support for aspiring entrepreneurs, world-class faculty and focused curriculum. The Princeton Review/Entrepreneur rankings highlight Darden’s substantial endowment in the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology and notes how faculty “helped create entrepreneurship as a discipline unto itself in business academia.”
The Poets & Quants ranking highlights Darden’s 83 courses related to entrepreneurship and its record of 274 companies started by graduates over the last five years.
Poets & Quants gathered data from participating business schools in 16 categories – with some carrying more weight than others – to compile its 2025 World’s Best MBA Programs for Entrepreneurship list.
Darden’s Top 10 ranking was powered in part by impressive results in several of those categories:
- Darden was #2 among schools for the percentage of elective courses offered that focus solely on entrepreneurship or innovation.
- Darden was #2 in the category reflecting the percent of MBA faculty teaching at least one entrepreneurship or innovation-focused course during the last academic year.
- Darden also was #2 among schools for the percentage of MBA students who took an entrepreneurship elective in the 2023-24 academic year.
Content featured in this article first appeared in Poets & Quants, The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences. Darden’s graduate degree programs (MBA, MSBA and Ph.D.) and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact. Darden’s top-ranked faculty, renowned for teaching excellence, inspires and shapes modern business leadership worldwide through research, thought leadership and business publishing. Darden has Grounds in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area and a global community that includes 18,000 alumni in 90 countries. Darden was established in 1955 at the University of Virginia, a top public university founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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